ECS G41T-M12

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Introducing the Motherboard
Feature
The motherboard uses an LGA775 type of Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual Core/Celeron
®
Dual Core/Celeron
®
400 series processors that carries the
following features:
Processor
• Core
TM
2 Quad/Core
TM
2 Duo/Pentium
®
Dual Core/Celeron
®
Dual Core/
Celeron
®
400 series processors
• Supports a system bus (FSB) of 1333/1066/800 MHz
• LGA775 socket for latest Intel
®
45nm Multi-Core processors
The Intel
®
G41 Northbridge (NB) and Intel
®
ICH7 Southbridge (SB) chipsets are
based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and
performance.
Chipset
G41 (NB)
ICH7 (SB)
Memory
• Enhanced DMA Controller, interrupt controller, and timer
functions
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revi-
sion 1.0a
• Compliant with PCI v2.3 specification
• Integrated SATA 3.0 Gb/s Host Controller
• Integrated USB 2.0 Host Controller supporting up to
eight USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 100/66/
33
• Supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU to
access the entire 64 GB of the memory address space
• 2 GB/s point-to-point Direct Media Interface (DMI) to
ICH7 (1 GB/s each direction)
• Supports 2-GB, 1-Gb, 512 Mb DDR3 DRAM technolo-
gies for x8 and x16 devices
• One, 16-lane (x16) PCI Express port intended for exter-
nal device attach, fully compatible to the PCI Express
Gen 1
• An integrated graphics device (IGD) delivering cost com-
petitive 3D, 2D and video capabilities
• Microsoft DX10 and 128MB share memory are sup-
ported
• Supports DDR3 1066/800
DDR3 SDRAM with Dual-channel architecture.
• Accommodates two unbuffered DIMMs.
• 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets support up to 8 GB.